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Definition of Balboa

1. Noun. The basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos.

2. Noun. Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519).

Definition of Balboa

1. Noun. The currency of Panama, divided into 100 centésimos ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Balboa

1. a monetary unit of Panama [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Balboa

balaphone balaphones balas balas-ruby balas ruby balase balases balata balata tree balatas

balaunce balaustine balaustines balbis balboa (current term) balboas balbriggan balbriggans balbuties balcon

balconet balconets balconette balconette bra balconettes balconied balconies balcony bra

Literary usage of Balboa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New by Roger Bigelow Merriman (1918)
"Four days later balboa waded into the waters of the Mar del Sur, or Southern Ocean, as he had already named it, holding aloft a banner and a sword, ..."

2. South American Fights and Fighters: And Other Tales of Adventure by Cyrus Townsend Brady (1910)
"Pedrarias was furious against balboa, and would have withheld the King's dispatches acknowledging the discovery of the South Sea by appointing him ..."

3. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"Asia], but balboa proved that half the width of the globe still separated ... If balboa could prove this by standing on a mountain in Darien and looking at ..."

4. The Story of Panama: The New Route to India by Frank Ales Gause, Charles Carl Carr (1912)
"balboa was a nobleman of Spain and a soldier of fortune, who like scores of others had come out to the New World to seek adventures and to replenish his ..."

5. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"The Spaniards, meanwhile, had pushed on across the Caribbean Sea and founded Darien, whither, in 1510, came one Vasco Nunez balboa. ..."

6. Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac (1918)
"Hdqtrs., balboa Heights. Col. Chester Harding. USA, Gov., Ala. ... balboa Hgts., »Í.OOO; WF Foster. Master of Transportation. balboa Hgts., »3600; Frank ..."

7. The History of Our Country from Its Discovery by Columbus to the Celebration by Abby Sage Richardson (1875)
"CHAPTER IV. FIRST VIEW OF THE PACIFIC. Spanish Colonies. — Vasco Nunez de balboa. — Avarice of Spaniards. — The Indians lead balboa in Sight of the Land ..."

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